Shuttered LC adapter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10012799-B2
Application number	US-201715651456-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 17, 2017
Priority date	Nov 10, 2011
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

A shuttered adapter is described that includes a shuttered housing, a shutter sub-assembly frame contained within the housing, a pair of shutter doors hingedly secured to the shutter sub-assembly frame, and a door spring configured to push the shutter doors outward from the shutter sub-assembly frame and away from each other. The shuttered housing can have a separable sleeve retention insert which allows a ledge to be molded inside the shuttered housing. The ledge can be configured to abut the front lower surface of the shuttered doors when the doors are pushed outward from the shutter sub-assembly frame.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fiber optic adapter comprising:
a standard housing;
a shuttered housing configured to engage the standard housing wherein the shuttered housing has an opening from a front face of the shuttered housing to a rear face wherein the front face of the shuttered housing is defined as a face configured to engage a fiber optic connector;
a shutter sub-assembly configured to engage a slot in the rear of shuttered housing, the shutter sub-assembly having a shutter sub-assembly frame, shutter doors, and a spring wherein the shutter assembly frame is configured to form a portion of a wall separating the opening of the shuttered housing into two portions, each portion configured to accept a fiber optic connector; and
a sleeve retention insert configured to engage a rear of the shuttered housing and be retained between the shuttered housing and the standard housing.

2. The fiber optic adapter of claim 1 further comprising at least one ledge formed in the shuttered housing configured to abut the front surface of at least one of the shutter doors.

Assignees

• Panduit Corp

Inventors

• Sanders Joseph E
• Kuffel Gregory L
• Irwin Phillip J
• Marrs Samuel M

Classifications

• H01R13/4536

  Inwardly pivoting shutter · CPC title

• G02B6/3897

  Connectors fixed to housings, casing, frames or circuit boards (G02B6/44528 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G02B6/3825

  with an intermediate part, e.g. adapter, receptacle, linking two plugs · CPC title

• G02B6/3879

  Linking of individual connector plugs to an overconnector, e.g. using clamps, clips, common housings comprising several individual connector plugs · CPC title

• G02B6/3849 Primary

  using mechanical protective elements, e.g. caps, hoods, sealing membranes (G02B6/3816 takes precedence; provisionally see H01R13/44) · CPC title